Saturday, March 13, 2021

Gregory Orr: Some Say You're Lucky

Some say you’re lucky
If nothing shatters it.

But then you wouldn’t
Understand poems or songs.
You’d never know
Beauty comes from loss.

It’s deep inside every person:
A tear tinier
Than a pearl or thorn.

It’s one of the places
Where the beloved is born.

Gregory Orr
From Concerning the Book That Is
the Body of the Beloved 
 

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